[Rd] AIX testers needed

[Prof Brian Ripley]

With much thanks to Ei-ji Nakama, R 2.5.0 alpha supports building on AIX 
(at least AIX 5.2 on one system).

Would anyone able to test this please get the latest tarball from

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz

and try installing (after reading the AIX notes in R-admin.html section 
C.9).

In particular it would be very helpful to know if

1) --enable-BLAS-shlib works (it is the default everywhere except AIX and 
Darwin)

2) if people succeed in installing GNU libiconv and building without 
needing --without-iconv.

I am Cc:ing all the people I tracked down who reported attempted AIX 
installations in 2006 in the hope that they may still be interested.

Please report success and any hints or problems in the R-devel list.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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